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It was being talked about being "not far off" when I worked for them in 2010. There have been enough pinches of salt taken with everything they say to grit the entire road network this winter...

No such thing - ultimately the toughest stuff out there will have keys prized off and snapped. Classroom control, careful monitoring.

Yeah it's legit. Seemed all absolutely fine until method 3 of collecting data; I hope there's more to it than just introducing themselves as that!

Yup, Airpods definitely are pointless

Shouldn't be, can automate that from a SIMS report really easily! We got used to it as our Moodle (also used to be looked after by Overnet) needed it for something.

Definitely - we're 1200 students in a split-site school (and growing daily) with a similar cost. Compared to adding up everything like SIMS teacher apps, parentcall or other school/home comms, Show my homework etc it saves a lot of money. The SIMS stuff in our opinion is better than any of Capita's own offerings - the homework module we prefer to SMH. Parents evening booking system isn't perfect compared to some of the specialist versions but I say that now being fully aware they may have already updated and fixed things Our last parents evening went extremely smoothly with it.

It is too good, but it is true. We love it, have used it for ages now and wouldn't look elsewhere. Support is second to none and they do listen to feature requests and many have been implemented within an extremely quick timeframe. Couldn't recommend them highly enough, intuitive to the point where we've done very little in the way of training for staff, students or documentation for parents because it just works. We use it heavily for homework, behaviour, attendance, parents evening and mobile use, and are looking at other parts to replace things like concern reporting (in place of MyConcern). When these modules/upgrades get added, they just occur, we get notified, all parts can be enabled/disabled as needed and there has never been any extra cost.

Windows 10 is supposed to be the "last" version of Windows, i.e. moving to service based and it will remain updated rather than superceded.

You'll be able to pick up second hand ones from ebay easily enough if that's possible, otherwise you'd spend a fair bit more getting anything new (not sure juniper still even support them). Also cant remember if you'l lbe able to reprovision from cloud to local without a support contract, so it'll be worth a chat with Juniper's support maybe first. Gut instinct says you'll be given the ultimatum of a support contract/licensing and a controller, where a new unifi setup would cost less overall

Not a major issue, they bring little to no benefit to a classroom going from HD to 4k so it's not worth the expenditure, however just about anything modern core i5 onwards with a good amount of ram should cope with extended/duplicate 4k screens.

At that price (see currys link above) it's worth getting a couple in regardless, especially as they're 32GB models with free case and 64gb SD card.

Sorry, you have an odd interpretation of email safety and what junk/spam is, plus a highly probable misunderstanding of correlation/causation.

Yeah got a few, pretty nippy and good value for money IMO.

Keystroke is fine. Don't change the wording because some people say they're beyond help, educate them (heh). If something happens and they end up in court trying to get something dismissed because they didn't understand the word, they'd be found guilty of lack of intelligence and integrity before anything else.

If in doubt, go Mikrotik; used both MM and SM transceivers in our unifi switches for 10 and 1gbit with no issues.

Replaced all our aging 3com 4400's with a batch of Dlinks 9 odd years ago. Did quite well for a basic setup, but quite a few dead ports and some "interesting" interpretations of STP & loop protection meaning they held very little in way of protection. Aruba everywhere now (whatever version of OS uses the older HP Procurve CLI) and certainly a few steps ahead

All you need to understand for Ruckus is £££, because that's all they're interested in.

No surprise. Apple have very little idea about markets other than consumer/prosumer and they don't particularly care about those markets outside of making money from them.

There are known issues apparently but cant remember what they were; our data manager spoke to Capita a couple of days ago for something else and asked if we should apply it. "Not at the moment" was the answer they got.

Just where it folds, the mech, the glare on the screen (may be lighting but not this much). Obviously will be some distortion where it bends, but I'm a very function-over-form person and this serves neither in my eyes

It just looks... damaged. That fold bit is horrible. But people love a gimmick.

Sorry, one of those "non technical" solutions would be better here; both these options invite actual damage to sockets rather than inconvenience! If someone's bored enough they'll pluck that cable out without a second thought.

Yes, still use it although looking to lessen it's use due to OneDrive, Sharepoint, Teams etc. Still works well though and plenty of knowledge on these forums, & documentation is decent.

It would be a no then, not to worry I just know someone who ended up in a similar state for very similar reasons!

Was gonna say, nothing like that coming from our kit so was assuming it only applied to beta. At this point I do wonder what's worse, just not mentioning it like this until questioned, or burying it in 56 pages of small print designed specifically to not be read (fruity)